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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Senior, you are worrying about something that happens so rarely here as to be noteworthy;a breakin. There are hundreds maybe more of constantly changing men and woman working for many, many, many, landscapers and lawn maintainance folks.
We use Mikes Maintainance home division. They are the ones that The Villages use to maintain all of the common area, but does NOT mean that everyone that works for them is a boy scout, but does mean they have been here for as long as Gary Morse has. Sloanes did the landscaping that came with our house and they did GREAT. They also are contractors for the developers. They certainly don't have much in the area of chit chat and happy talk but they can find their way around planting palm trees and stuff beautifully. I notice they use the design style that interior decor people use, rule of three, dark accent color, pop of bright color etc.etc. Most people over landscape. Everything grows so fast here.
Make a few friends here who appear to have good common sense and follow their direction.
And come on down. I want to learn everything you know about cooking and we can argue as to who has the best and nicest and prettiest grandchildren!
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Did I say I was worried? I was stating the difference between a small town where everyone knows their hired workers.
Well, I'm sure your grandkids are really wonderful but ours are still newborn, baby age, toddler, 8 years, 11 years and one 18. We have a ways to go to catch up with yours.
Hopefully, some day....(p.s. actually quite a few of the landscapers I mentioned were Eagle Scouts in our town and in New Jersey)....just showing the difference.
Not worried. I'm keeping a running list of all the good ones people have happily used and posted.
I was expressing understanding of those who were worried........as we did see the ones working along the roadsides as we drove here and there (mentioned by others in this thread).
They didn't exactly look like our lawn maintenance guys up here.......let's just say that. We wouldn't leave our safes open or our doors unlocked.
Plus hubby would service his own pool. It isn't hard to do. He would chat with the guys who came once a week to vacuum and then he went out and got his own cleaner for the mold under the coping.........and would clean a little each day as he floated around. Type A personality.